Bug#181429: grubconf ITP

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:00:19PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> Hey gang, I've fixed the package. Here's the new one:
> http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grubconf/grubconf-0.5-debian/
> 
> Let me know how this one is.

In debian/control:

Build-Depends: 

 - These packages are always part of the base system. Unless you need a
   particular version of them you don't need to build-depend:

 base-files (>= 3.0.8 )
 libc6 (>= 2.3.1-16 )
 coreutils (>= 4.5.10-1 )
 grep (>= 2.5.1-4 )

 - These packages are already in the Build-Essential set, you don't need to
   build-depend on them, either (unless you need a particular version):

 binutils (>= 2.13.90.0.18-1.3 )
 gcc-3.3
 libc6-dev (>= 2.3.1-16 )
 perl-base (>= 5.8.0-17 )
 perl-modules (>= 5.8.0-17 )


 - The following packages are shared libraries. You don't need these in
 build-depends. If you need the development files (headers and object archives)
 for compiling your package, build-depend on their correspondant -dev packages
 instead:

 libxml1
 libglade0
 libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.2.1-3 )
 libncurses5 (>= 5.3.20021109-2 )
 libgnome2-0

 - Do you really need version >= 2.57-2woody1 of autoconf? If you're running
 autoconf at build time, probably any of the 2.5x series is enough, which
 means you just need to build-depend on unversioned autoconf, and
 build-conflict with autoconf2.13 (to avoid it from setting a /usr/bin/autoconf
 divert)

 autoconf (>= 2.57-2woody1 )

 - You don't need to depend on shared libraries, dpkg-shlibdeps already takes
 care of adding it:

 Depends: libgtk2.0-0

 - Also remember to indent the Description field.


In debian/copyright:

 - The "It was downloaded from sourceforge.net" doesn't suffice to refer
 someone for downloading it.

P.S: Remember to run lintian on your .dsc and .deb for automatic evaluation
of your package before uploading it.

P.P.S: please sign your source package next time (just install gnupg and
create a key, it'll be signed automaticaly by dpkg-buildpackage) and
publish your gpg key.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)